Power Stone.
Mind Stone.
A virtual aggregate of Time Stone rules.
And a half-grown baby drooling as it hugged the purple-glowing Power Stone and gnawed on it fiercely.
Luke could not help falling into deep thought at the sight.
How had he unknowingly come into contact with the power of four Infinity Stones already? Oh, there was also the Reality Stone, running all over the place on Malekith, who was fleeing Nidavellir's pursuit. If nothing unexpected happened, he too would sooner or later be captured by the Abyss. Would that mean only the so-called Soul Stone remained before he collected the universe's so-called six-piece set?
But after thinking about it, even collecting them all did not seem likely to bring any major change.
After all, according to what Ancient One had told him, he would sooner or later break beyond a Single Universe and enter the Multiverse.
Everything that had happened on Knowhere was transmitted back intact through the Data Dimension. Using the Data Dimension, which had nearly expanded into the Cosmic Virtual Dark Side, Luke could not resist meddling in it.
For example, in the end, he used the Power Stone as an energy source to connect the Data Dimension to Knowhere, materializing a small portion of the Data Dimension within the Prime Universe.
In other words, the Data Dimension now had a physical entrance and exit in this universe, much like a celestial Black Hole.
Luke had expended so much energy to materialize such an input-output gateway because certain ideas had suddenly surfaced in his mind. Calling them flashes of inspiration would not quite be accurate. They were merely scattered thoughts he had long possessed, which had suddenly encountered the right opportunity and made him unable to resist laying the groundwork for them first.
Because he had discovered